Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 7 June 2016
Murder by peacekeepers in Central African Republic; shameful UN U-turn on Saudi; mining riches help fund Taliban; Sudan protests on Darfur; "travesty of justice" in Tajikistan; Shia militias accused of Iraq torture; keeping refugees away from Europe; Algeria jail term; & Film Festival to open...
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The 27th edition of the New York Human Rights Watch Film Festival will take place from June 10-19, with 18 provocative feature films in the line up. Growing Up Coy sensitively portrays the struggles of a Colorado family who take on a highly publicized legal battle to fight for their 6-year-old transgender daughter’s rights to use the girls’ bathroom.
Contaminated water and broken systems are jeopardizing the health of thousands of indigenous people in Canada. First Nations communities living on Canadian reserves have the same right to water and sanitation as all Canadians, but a lack of action by the government to provide safe and accessible water is depriving them of that right.
In Egypt, a human rights lawyer and two judges charged for proposing an anti-torture law. You read that correctly.
Good news, Norway became Europe’s fourth country to separate medical and legal processes for legally recognizing transgender people, joining Denmark, Ireland, and Malta.
Senator John Cornyn of Texas has introduced an amendment to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2015 that would give the FBI the power to request electronic “transactional records” such as log-in dates and times, browsing histories, and email logs from Internet service providers.
From earlier today: Soldiers from the Republic of Congo killed at least 18 people while serving as peacekeepers in the Central African Republic, damning new research from Human Rights Watch has found. Twelve skulls were discovered in a mass grave in February this year, near to a peacekeeping base in Boali. The victims are believed to have been summarily executed on March 24, 2014.